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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






2. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






3. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






4. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






5. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






6. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






7. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






8. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






9. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






10. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






11. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






12. What function is vitamin A?






13. Where can you get more vitamin D?






14. How many calories/gram is protein?






15. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






16. What is normal BMI?






17. Fats can lead to some medical problems






18. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






19. When does BMR decrease?






20. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






21. When does BMR increase?






22. What is RDA of protein?






23. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






24. What function is vitamin D?






25. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






26. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






27. Name six sources of grains






28. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






29. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






30. What is normal albumin levels?






31. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






32. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






33. Sources of fats






34. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






35. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






36. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






37. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






38. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






39. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






40. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






41. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






42. What foods have high quality protein?






43. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






44. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






45. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






46. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






47. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






48. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






49. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






50. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?